Judges 9:32

and now, rise by night, you and the people who [are] with you, and lay wait in the field,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:

In Context

31and he sends messengers to Abimelech deceitfully, saying, “Behold, Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers are coming into Shechem, and behold, they are fortifying the city against you;

33and it has been, in the morning, about the rising of the sun, you rise early, and have pushed against the city; and behold, he and the people who [are] with him are going out to you—and you have done to him as your hand finds.”

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Cross References

Joshua 8:3And Joshua rises, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai, and Joshua chooses thirty thousand men, mighty men of valor, and sends them away by night,

Job 24:14The murderer rises at the light, || He slays the poor and needy, || And in the night he is as a thief.

Proverbs 1:11If they say, “Come with us, we lay wait for blood, || We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

Romans 3:15Their feet [are] swift to shed blood.

Matthew Henry on Judges 9:23-50

Gaal's Insurrection; Gaal's Defeat. ( b. c. 1206.) 22 When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel, 23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech: 24 That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren. 25 And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him… Read the whole commentary →

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